A Chartered Construction Manager, Engineer, Project Manager, and Surveyor by profession, Ir Prof. Chan has worked in a number of tertiary institutions both in Hong Kong and overseas. He was a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Building and Planning at the University of South Australia. Ir Prof. Chan joined the Department of Building and Real Estate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1996 and was Associate Head (Teaching) from 2005 to 2011; Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment from 2011 to 2013, and from 2013 to 2014 respectively. He is currently Head of Department of Building and Real Estate. Ir Prof. Chan’s research and teaching interests include project management and project success, construction procurement and relational contracting, construction management and economics, construction health and safety, and construction industry development. Ir Prof. Chan’s research has had a real and significant impact on the construction industry resulting in changes in policy decisions. His recommendations have been incorporated in the Construction Industry Council Guidelines on “Site Safety Measures for Working in Hot Weather” in April 2013. He has produced over 700 research outputs in refereed journal papers, international refereed conference papers, consultancy reports, and other articles. He has won a number of prestigious research paper and innovation awards since 1995. Ir Prof. Chan holds an MSc in Construction Management and Economics from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and a PhD in Project Management from the University of South Australia. Ir Prof. Chan maintains good links with overseas institutions. He has been an Adjunct Professor in a number of universities. Ir Prof. Chan was also a Founding Director of Construction Industry Institute, Hong Kong, which was a joint research institution developed by industry and the academia.
Enhancing Occupational Health and Safety through Anti-Heat Stress Uniform
Ir Professor Albert PC Chan
Chair Professor of Construction Engineering and Management
Head, Department of Building and Real Estate
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Construction workers need to work under direct sunlight most of the time which may create health hazard when the weather is hot and humid. Wearing suitable work uniform with superior thermal-moisture functional performance is an effective measure to protect workers from heat stress. This presentation will discuss how such work uniform was developed based on a rigorous research process from a multi-disciplinary team. The impact and the real application of the anti-heat stress uniform will also be highlighted.
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László Dunai DSc became a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in 2008. He has worked at the Department of Structural Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics’ Faculty of Civil Engineering since 1989, since 2003 as a professor. He has been the head of the department since 2010. Ha has also served as the dean of the faculty since 2013. Professor Dunai is a member of numerous associations, for example, the Fritz Engineering Research Society, the Structural Stability Research Council and the Hungarian Steel Structure Association, to name a few. He is also on MTA’s doctoral committee, as well as on the editorial board of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research and Steel Construction. His fields of research include steel- and steel-concrete composite structures, behaviour of structural connections under cyclic loading, innovative thin-walled structural systems, and numerical modelling of structures: nonlinear finite element modelling, among others.
Prof. John Smallwood is Professor and Head, Department of Construction Management, and Programme Director, MSc (Built Environment) Programme, and a member of Construction Research Education and Training Enterprises (CREATE), which consultancy specialises in construction health and safety (H&S), and quality. Notable latter related contributions include those to the cidb H&S and quality status reports.
Both his MSc and PhD (Construction Management) addressed H&S; the latter addressed the relationship with productivity and quality. He is also a National Research Foundation rated researcher specialising in construction-related issues such as H&S. Nearly 32 years of H&S and also quality experience includes contracts management, research, publishing, research, course / programme / seminar / workshop development, lecturing, conference organising, judging, and chairing of regional and national forums and committees.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), and a member of the Association of Construction Project Managers (ACPM), Ergonomics Society of South Africa (ESSA), Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), Institute of Safety Management (IoSM), International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), and South African Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (SAIOSH), registered as a Pr CHSA and Pr CM with, and a Past-Councilor of the Council of the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP), and a Past-President of the then South African Institute of Building (SAIB). He is also a Past-President, Association of Schools of Construction Southern Africa (ASOCSA), and a Director, Association of Construction Health and Safety Management (ACHASM). International contributions include Coordinator, Africa and Middle East, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) Work Group 99 (Safety and Health in Construction), and International Coordinator, CIB Task Group 59 (People in Construction).
Ferenc Makovényi received his PhD degree in architecture in 2001 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has been as Collage Professor the head of the Department of Building Construction at Szent István University’s Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering since 2003, where he served as a dean from 2006-2014. He was vice president of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects from 2009-2013, now he is member of the Board. He is member of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee as well. As a construction manager he controlled and supervised more than 20 constructions in the range of 50 Million to 5 Billion HUF. He designed and built more than a dozen buildings, has more than sixty articles in different newspapers. His research areas are education management, building construction , rural development and agricultural building design questions.
